967 private quotes tagged death

“An evil life is a kind of death.” — Ovid

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“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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“Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.” — J. K. Rowling

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.” — Theodor Adorno

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.” — Stokely Carmichael

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” — Henry Miller

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“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.” — Wilson Mizner

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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” — William Hazlitt

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“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.” — Stanislav Grof

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“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.” — Doug Coupland

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“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” — George Whitefield

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“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“Death was like love, a romantic escape.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” — Jean Racine

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